Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
JAMES MADISONThe purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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